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HANDELSBLATT is Germany’s leading business daily newspaper. I worked with them to set up what probably will be the THE leading Open Innovation conference this year (for the conference program have a look here) in Germany. The event will take place on December 02-03, 2010 in Frankfurt. I was responsible for designing the program and speaker acquisition and secured top-notch …

Colin Raney recently expressed his views on how to implement Business Model innovations. Colin is a Business Designer at IDEO, where he helps organizations launch new ventures and find new avenues for growth. IDEO itself is a design and innovation consultancy based in Palo Alto, California, United States. The company helps design products, services, environments, and digital experiences. Additionally, the …

In a recently published article in InnovationManagement Georges Haour, Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at IMD, states two major trends in innovation management. Innovation ecosystems First, companies must deal with more and more external inputs. By being aware of and accessing what universities, SMEs or start-ups can offer to complement their own internal capabilities, companies are in a much …

Google recently made a string of interesting acquisitions. Among them: Android, 2Web Technologies, Marratech, GrandCentral and Gizmo5. Frost&Sullivan saw this as a harbinger of Google’s yet-not-publicized strategy of addressing two important B2B markets, the markets for unified communications and the market for online collaboration tools. they even went so far to project that these two markets will merge into one, …

Recently I spoke with Dr Thomas Weber, Managing Director of BASF’s Future Business, about what it takes for a large company to maintain a constant flow of innovation ideas and a spirit of enthusiasm to feed the pipeline. BASF Future Business (www.basf-fb.com) opens up new areas of business for BASF, the chemical industry’s leading player. It is geared to exploration …

This article discusses which software is best suited to different Open Innovation (OI) approaches. The subject is particularly interesting since, on the one hand there are more and more companies that embrace OI, and on the other, there are a lot of software solutions on the market that have proven productive. The article first looks at the different OI approaches …

Like any new venture, every successful change program needs to have an elevator pitch: “In one minute or less describe what the change will be”. In my experience in Change Management projects I always felt the need to have an easy-to-handle tool which helped me to increase transparency in what exactly will change and at the same to commuivate to …

BCG interviewed 2,700 global executives on their view on innovation management. Roughly half of them are satisfied with the innovative performance and only one third with the way innovation is measured. The most important metrics are: Revenue from new products Performance (projected vs actual) Allocation of investments across projects Number of projects that meet planned dates . [slideshare id=5016761&doc=measuringinnovation-100820012259-phpapp02]

Harvard Business Review recently analyzed why Google decided to shut down Wave just a year after its launch. In the view of HBR, the main reason was that Google was not able to figure out before hand if there would be a market for Wave. In this article, Google recived credits for having measurable criteria for killing projects. In my …